Meaningless and weak: Debunking the ‘Bitcoiners are psychopaths’ study
An expert psychologist has said the way the results were gathered were “pretty much uninformative” and the connection between psychopathy and buying crypto was “very weak”. A study claiming that psychopaths and others with ‘Dark Tetrad’ personality traits are drawn to crypto has been criticized as "meaningless" for showing very weak correlativity by a psychology expert from The University of Otago.Researchers with backgrounds predominately in marketing and advertising from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) surveyed 566 people on their attitudes toward crypto and correlated the....
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